WASHINGTON -- Members of the Nationals' front office spent Monday preparing turkeys, portioning out side dishes and helping fix meals during the organization's annual visit to Food and Friends ahead of Thanksgiving.
Food and Friends helps prepare and deliver meals and nutrition counseling to people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses within the Washington, D.C., area. The organization was founded in 1988, during the AIDS crisis, and began serving people with HIV/AIDS because of how often they had been ostracized and left without access to nutritional food. The Nationals have volunteered there around Thanksgiving for the past nine years.